{"id":245891,"date":"2023-02-27T13:39:21","date_gmt":"2023-02-27T12:39:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=245891"},"modified":"2023-02-27T13:39:29","modified_gmt":"2023-02-27T12:39:29","slug":"new-study-confirms-coral-reefs-are-adapting-to-warmer-waters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=245891","title":{"rendered":"New Study Confirms Coral Reefs Are Adapting to Warmer Waters"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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In a new study published in the\u00a0Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences<\/em><\/a>\u00a0scientists have discovered that some corals in the eastern Pacific are adapting to a warmer world by hosting more heat-tolerant algae.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) projects that a 2 degrees C of warming would kill off 99 percent of global corals. However, the new study \u201cshows that there are some unusual reefs that may be able to survive for several decades as a result of their ability to shuffle symbionts,\u201d Andrew Baker, a marine biologist at the University of Miami and coauthor of the research, said in a statement.

\u201cWhile we don\u2019t think that most reefs will be able to survive in this way, it does suggest that vestiges of our current reefs may persist for longer than we previously thought, although potentially with many fewer species,\u201d Baker said.

A\u00a0new report<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0recently published by the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF), using official data from all over the world, found that there is no statistically significant reduction in global coral reefs since reliable records began two decades ago. In fact, for the Great Barrier Reef, the world\u2019s biggest reef system,\u00a0a record breaking high coral cover has been recorded.

Dr Peter Ridd, one of the world\u2019s most eminent coral researchers, said

\u201cScientists are being suspiciously pessimistic about the future of the worlds reefs, even when they find wonderful news such as this latest study from the Eastern Pacific. Why are they constantly peddling such doom?\u201d

Peter Ridd:\u00a0Coral in a\u00a0Warming World: Causes for Optimism\u00a0(pdf)<\/a>\u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n